Committee advances IT, cloud and property‑management procurements including JAMF, Accela and SAN purchase
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Summary
Council committees endorsed a set of procurement items: JAMF mobile-device management ($127,077), Accela cloud land-management services (six‑year agreement ~$3.75M split with Allen County), a SAN storage purchase (~$2.23M split among city, county and City Utilities) and an increase in a housekeeping purchase order to $215,000; members discussed costs, vendor/cloud risks and device counts.
The Finance Committee and other committees advanced several procurement and service items covering IT, cloud services and building services.
Bob Feeley, the city CIO, presented S25-10-05: a JAMF mobile-device management renewal for $127,077 to manage city iPads and iPhones used in the field; Feeley said the software allows remote wipe and management and that the city supports about 476 iPads and 248 iPhones. Feeley told council the JAMF contract will be replaced next year with an alternate (iTunes was mentioned as a planned change) to reduce recurring costs.
Council also considered S25-10-06, a six‑year cloud‑hosted Accela land‑management contract for $3,745,667.52 to be split roughly 50/50 with Allen County; Feeley said the cloud deployment reduces on-site hardware risk and that the city and county users are roughly comparable in head count. Council members asked about vendor outages; Feeley acknowledged vendor-dependency risks but said cloud migration reduces local hardware costs.
The committee reviewed a SAN (storage area network) purchase from Elevate Technology Partners for roughly $2.23M to replace aging storage and add mirrored redundancy. The purchase was presented as split across the civil city, Allen County and City Utilities based on usage. The committee also considered a housekeeping purchase-order increase (S25-10-02) to $215,000 for Sisson Square and the Public Safety Academy after the city shifted to temporary direct hires and reduced overall janitorial budget projections.
Most procurement items received due‑pass recommendations; votes were recorded in committee minutes.
